No Country for Old Men

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No Country for Old Men The 3 main characters in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men include Anton Chigurh, Tom Bell and Llewelyn Moss. Chigurh plays a psychopath murderer who tracks down Moss throughout the story to regain drug money. Tom Bells character is a Sheriff who is trying to save Moss’s life. Most important of all is Llewelyn Moss who takes on the role of the money holder; Moss stole money from a drug scene gone wrong. All these characters develop throughout the novel and have an impact on developing the theme of making choices in what’s most important in life. Anton Chigurh is one of the main characters in this story. He really plays an important part in this novel because his role is always changing and is the motivation behind the actions of the other characters. We are shown from the beginning that he is a ruthless killer, but then we are also shown that he can also be a detective, as well as a hunter. Interrogating victims, hunting Llewelyn Moss, and evading Tom Bell. Chigurh often has symptoms similar to those of a psychopath, giving justifications to acts that could never be justified. His belief that he is a sort of ultimate being is the only justification that he needs to flip a coin and discard of a human life. Chigurh represents the bad choices made in life and is the ultimate evil that McCarthy uses to show one of the extremes in choice making. Tom Bell plays the sheriff of a small town police force who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong. While on the brink of retirement he thinks little of this case and while it appears that he puts little physical energy in, he put enough mental energy in to suffice. His great guilt from his war days plays a large role in his attitude toward the sudden rise in homicides in his county. It can be viewed as a second chance for Bell, one that even though he fails sets him free of his past guilt
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